San Antonio College Library

Looks at the composition and properties of and the ocean's effects on the earth's atmosphere. Explains the Coriolis effect, wind patterns, air masses, and cyclones and shows how scientists use Doppler radar, weather satellites, and computer modeling to study the atmosphere.

"Elementary Climate Physics is an introductory text that covers climate-related topics at a level suitable for undergraduates in the physical sciences, and for graduate students and others requiring a quantitative introduction to the field. It aims to set out the basic mechanisms controlling climate, to apply relatively simple physics to the problem of climate change, and to provide a foundation for more advanced work. References to appropriate further...

The author artfully recasts the story of human expansion and cultural development with the ocean playing the central role. Applying a novelist's eye for detail and a historian's drive for perspective, he connects the great ages of ocean exploration from Columbus, Magellan, and Cook to the development of modern oceanography.

When it comes to regulating global temperatures, forget the Amazon Rainforest. It's the oceans that really deserve the title of lungs of the planet. Their plankton provides us with oxygen. Their currents transport heat from the tropical regions to the poles, acting as an air conditioner. They absorb almost a quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted annually. But so much of what they do and exactly how they do it is still unknown. To gain a deeper understanding...

This title explores the realization that the Earth's climate system could undergo abrupt reorganizations, changing temperatures and rainfall across much of the planet.

"For advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students in atmospheric, oceanic, and climate science, Atmosphere, Ocean, and Climate Dynamics is an introductory textbook on the circulations of the atmosphere and ocean and their interaction, with an emphasis on global scales. It will give students a good grasp of what the atmosphere and oceans look like on the large-scale and why they look that way. The role of the oceans in climate and paleoclimate...